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Telegram ifom prescott, uatec
September I'd, says;
A strong protest is being entered
against Gem Miles Recommendation
TO remove TIRE Tonto apache Indians,
from San Carlos to the Camp Verde
reservation. Governor Zulick has en-,
treated the authorities at Washington
to keep the Indians at San Carlos. a
large party of them went on a visit TO
Camp Verde lew days ago and on
their return raided a ranch
The ground upon which Governor
zulick's "entreaty" is based is not
stated IN the dispatch. It can not be
because that Sayapai c6anty is frao-
tion over ten times as large as Gila, or
that it contains 27,72O more square
mules than ella county, from where it
is proposed to remove a small band Of
M1aves (650l to Fort Verde reservs-
tiop in Yayapai county, leaving San
Carlos reservation, according to last
census report, Of 1854 colony q
5000 Yayapai besides having a large
area of unoccupied lard, has two mil
ltary posts which, without Indians to
look after, are lonesome, more orna-
mental than useful. Gila has no mil
tary post and consequently the Indians
are not restrained from roaming al
win, and yet GoVeFnec Euiick has
''entreated" the authorities to keep
the Indians at San Carlos. We are an
xioas 10 hear what Graham and Co.
leAise counties have to say about Zu-
hicks protest concerning the disposi-
tion of this comparatively small band
of Mohaye Indians,
Will bis Excellenoy not unbend his
etRciai mind and give reason for his
Hypothetical "entreaty" to bird lime 50
numerous body ofIndians to sah Car.
los, when the Verde military reserya-
tion is so well adapted to receive a
portion Of them9 As Fort Whipple is
now situated within stone throw Of
the capital, and no hostile Indians in
that vicinity, therefore, for all the
protection u affords the Territory, Il
might as well be in Kamtchatka az iut.
ting against Prescott Abandon Whip.
pie and establish military post on
the San Carlos reservation west of the
Agency buildings, and Governor zu.
lick can "entreat" the Government,
aatil he is as old as an Egyptian mum
my, not to place Indians on the Verde
military reservation, for aught South
ern Arizonans care.
1T Indians are to be retained in Ar
lzona we are not in favor OF punching
them upon single community. Let
them be distributed in homeopathic
numbers General Miles ide4), wher-
ever military post is populated by
soldiers, in order that the corrective
may be applied whenever trangres-
sion occurs, and in order that Whip
pie Barracks may be rendered useful,
we suggest that the Mohayes may be
hived there, and advise that the Gov
ernor prick up hls ears and asntreatr
that the suggestion be given effect,
and that soldiers qpartered there may
be utilized in keeping the peace; and
if the Governor still "entreats" that
Indians be kept at San Carlos, let the
surrounding country be amply pro-
tectsd from invasion by pilfsring and
faiding Indians, which the district
contiguous to San Carries is and has
been subject 10 for moro than ten
years.
ahe homogeneous 'supplicationn Of
the Governor is accompanied BY an ac-
count Of Mark Smiths interview With
President Cleveland, in relation to the
Apachss, and is now being generally
printed and offered to suffering Ariso.
mans as corrective Of the Indian in
Fiction visited upon Southern Arizona.
Thus, in a Piekwickian sense, the
bearings of the Presidents observation
"lays in the application on it, which
with hlm, as IN the circumiocutron or
Ace referred to by Dickens, lis the art
OF perceiying how not to carry them
into effect"
The interest taken in the welfare Of
Arizonans by President Cleveland is
exemplifed by his response to Judge
DIbble-whose brother and Others had
been murdered by Geronimo's band,
and who was delegated By citizens Of
Coehise county to visit Washington
and acquaint Cleveland with the facts
concerning the deplorable condition Of |
Arizona, IN consequence Of Indian
raids -tbat he weuld be governed |
selely by the advice of Gen. Sheridan,
which also was the only consolation
gwen to Granville II. Curry, delegated
BY the Pioneer Society Of bleeding AZ.
izoaa- At that time Associated wires
were electrically alive with accounts
oil rapine and murder, but neyerthe-
less, the President hsroicslly adhered
to the belief that, notwithstanding |
facts attested by delegated representa-
tives OF residents of Arizona, be must